Ibiaw or Ibiau was an ancient Egyptian

vizier A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was a ...

and ''Chief of the town'' (i.e. mayor) during the

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, likely under pharaohs Wahibre Ibiaw and/or Merneferre Ay.

Attestations

There are no monuments which directly represent him, but he is mentioned as a vizier on three objects: a stele found at

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and now exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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, another stele found inside the sanctuary of

Heqaib Heqaib, also Hekaib or Hekayeb, was an ancient Egyptian nomarch of the 1st '' nomos'' of Upper Egypt (" Land of the Bow") under king Pepi II Neferkare, towards the end of the 6th Dynasty. He was also an officer in charge of military expeditions i ...

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, and a statuette probably from the Temple of Osiris at Abydos and now in Bologna (KS 1839). By combining the three monuments,

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s were able to realize a genealogy for Ibiaw: Some other monuments datable to this period refer to one or more dignitaries called Ibiaw. Some egyptologists believe that those objects could refer to the namesake vizier in some earlier stages of his career. Such statements would expand Ibiaw's genealogy: *One of the two sons of Ibiaw may have been the vizier Senebhenaf, father of queen Mentuhotep, herself wife of king

Djehuti Sekhemre Sementawy Djehuti (also Djehuty and other variants) was possibly the second king of the Theban 16th Dynasty reigning over parts of Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period. Alternatively, he may be a king of the late 13th Dyna ...

. This association could establish a significant temporal link between kings Ibiaw and Ay of the mid to late 13th dynasty and this poorly attested ruler. K.S.B. Ryholt, ''The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period'' (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997), p. 192. *Ibiaw's father may have been the vizier Sobka called Bebi. *It has even been suggested that vizier Ibiaw later in his life became the namesake king (i.e. Wahibre Ibiaw). However, Wolfram Grajetzki later pointed out that, since there is no monument citing with certainty some of Ibiaw's earlier titles, such identifications are purely conjectural and remain unproven.W. Grajetzki, ''Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom'', London 2009, p. 40.

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Labib Habachi Labib Habachi (لبيب حبشي) (April 18, 1906 – February 18, 1984) was an influential Coptic Egyptian Egyptologist. Dr Habachi spent 30 years in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian Government, ending his career as Chief inspector. ...

, "The Family of Vizier Ibiˁ and His Place Among the Viziers of the Thirteenth Dynasty", in ''Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur'', 11 (1984), p. 113-126. Ancient Egyptian viziers Officials of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt